I just thought I would chime in. I am new to poser. I have been using it 1 yr. but in that it I have spent $1000 here and Renderosity alone. I only use poser. I do not have daz3d installed on my machine. I would like to see a better way to find poser compatible things.

Sorry to spam I also wanter to point out that there is a good tutorial in the comments section on the blender rig page at rymdnisse.net that shows how to setup and use the rig.

Oh also the rig is free.

But if you want to use blender here is a good place to get prerigged mincraft assets both internal and cycles:

rymdnisse.net

I agree with Fibbits. He could make machinima right in the game. And record it with a program like FRAPS

with a coulpe of friends and a minecraft server he could make scenes for movies then edit them together with video editing software.

It looks like some of those scripts are on sale I will be trying them out. Thanks.

I don't think oliver's art materials are available anymore. At least I have not been able to find them. I do have so pass art shaders I am starting to mess around with. I will probably buy some of the shader works scripts. I think because I am new to Poser only using it this year I really wanted o get comfortable with all the core features before customizing it with scripts so I know what they are doing.

For the toon style all the backgrounds are pretty much left stock as they came. For the characters I change all the skin. I start with a preset from the Poser content runtime under "materials/Poser (version) Content/Cartoon/toon/GF-Skin1" and I darken out the diffuse color node. here is a pic

For the clothing i do the same with a preset from the same library and adjust the color if it is plain. If it is a pattern or texture I just add an edge blend to the node. here is a pic:

I delete all the lights and use add one ibl light and that helps flatten the look. if there is a shadow i create that by adding one more light a spotlight and position it above the character to get a shadow. I then turn the preview shadow size to max (4096) It does not affect the flatness just gives shadow. I usually render with preview render. My normal settings are to untick remove backfiring polys and set preview resolution to 2048 (sometimes 4096 but it usually does not make a difference).

Not in this intro but in some scenes the background did not render correctly in which case I render in Firefly with auto setting set to final and no other changes.

note: (sometimes the edge blend on a characters clothes will not show up in a firefly render but only in a preview render. I was told It is because some clothes Items are made flat with no depth. I just then render the character in preview with the background off and composite over the firefly rendered background. Aside from that my characters look exactly the same rendered in preview or firefly but preview render is faster)

One last comment I think the look is really sold because I use toon style hair. I have never been able to get strand hair to look good in a cartoon setting. Also I mostly use anime style eyes and faces on the characters. The four main characters used here are Near Me, Hiro 3, Star!, and Maybe (by Akatora)

First the music: I really like her Mish O'Neill. I purchased a license to use her music on stockmusicsite.com. Just like we can use content from Renderosity in renders that site is the same for music. The sound to me is like alt rock girl pop punk from the late 90's early 2000's Which is the style I wanted. The whole premise of the show started with what would Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Charmed the tv shows look like if they were an anime. This music fit in perfectly. Also because the lead character is a girl it happened to be fortuitous that the lyrics fit in nicely.

@ester I really like your render. Sep the tones on the skin and the edge blend.

I just finished an intro for the show I am creating. It was done all in Poser: half was done in Poser Pro 2014 and Half in the new Poser 11 although I do not think I used any features exclusive to the new version. The only post work besides special effects was a color correction and a diffusion glow.

Witch Hunter Intro

Ha ha I get the Irony. The TV show that the render is imitating is Firefly by Joss Whedon. It is actually a preview render as you can see the aux cam in the viewport. The new geometric lines are for preview rendering.

I did not like LL toon that much myself. I prefer to use an edge blend shader to create lines they are more organic looking to me. They are not all the same size. The default poser library has some good shaders one tone and two tone with edge line that I usually start with for characters. They create a good outline. I thought I might use the geometric line more but I prefer the edge bled line.

One thing the geometric line will work good for is to outline details like pockets and buttonss on shirt etc. I found used on a low setting like .2 or less combined with edge blend can look really good. But this is for a very 2d anime look as is most of what I am currently working on.

Firefly! Awesome show .... and render :-)

For cartoon anime style renders I only use one light set to Diffuse IBL Intensity between 50 and 100 percent and it is very bright. I do add a second spot light for shadows sometimes but that does not change the brightness.

to see examples:

Witchhunter.us